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Da'at Utvuna. Jerusalem 1911, only edition - Glosses of Rabbi Shaul David Chai Mualem

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Da'at Utvuna Mamarim from the Ari zl', by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Ben Eliyahu of Baghdad. Jerusalem 1910 - only edition. Among the pages of the book are About 220 corrections and Kabbalistic glosses according to the secret, in pencil, in the handwriting of Rabbi Shaul David Chai Mualem.

Rabbi Shaul David Chai Mualem [1910-1978] Born in Baghdad. As a child he studied with Rabbi Menashe al-Katab. He was particularly known for his great strength in preserving and collecting lost manuscripts, and lost authors' books. Over the years, he collected and collected all the holy books from his family for generations. From the days of his youth, he had stumbled to the great libraries of the rabbis of Babylon to copy their own manuscripts. Upon his arrival in Eretz Israel he brought with him his large library and many manuscripts of the wisdom of Kabbalah from previous generations. Thanks to his efforts, he had the most valuable manuscripts of Kabbalah from the writings of Rabbi Eliahu Mani, and he also dealt extensively with the manuscripts of the ben Ish Chai. From the time of his youth when he was abroad, he began to copy a few manuscripts from the rich spiritual estate of the late RIH Tov, and he bring them with him to the Land of Israel.

Even when he was young became a close associate of Rabbi Yehuda Ptaya, the greatest Kabbalist in Baghdad, and learned the secret from him for two years. when he arrived in Israel, most of his studies were with the elder Kabbalist Rabbi Ephraim Hacohen zalcha in the old Beit E-l Yeshiva. With the foundation of the "Porat Yosef" Yeshivah in the New City, he joined a small and outstanding group of great kabbalists based on the recommendation of Rabbi Yehoshua Sharabani. Then his knowledge and depth in the Zohar and its commentaries were revealed in all the books of the Ar'i and the Rashas'h. In those years he wrote his book "Lechem Abirim" commentary on Idra Demichena and Sifra DeTzniuta, in the depth of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

In 1963 he established a Yeshiva for the study of Kabbalah in the name of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Chaim z"l, "Yeshivat ben Ish Chai". Where they studied mainly Kabbalah. During the Six-Day War, he dealt with the practical kabala to canceling the enemy's power.

[4] 126 leaves. 33 cm. Old cardboard cover, good condition.

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193. Da'at Utvuna. Jerusalem 1911, only edition - Glosses of Rabbi Shaul David Chai Mualem